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- Syria: fresh fighting in eastern Ghouta despite UN-ordered ceasefire
- Social media firms failing to protect young people, survey finds
- 'See the facts': top Democrat defends Russia memo as Trump fumes
- More than 100 schoolgirls missing after Boko Haram attack in Nigeria
- North Korea willing to start direct talks with US, says South Korea
- Jerusalem: thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews attend rabbi's funeral
- Ireland pushes for UK TV channels to make post-Brexit move
- Jerusalem's Holy Sepulchre church closes in tax protest
- Storms leave five dead in Kentucky, Arkansas and Michigan
- Fire and Fury author and Tony Blair accuse each other of lying
- Iraq court sentences 16 Turkish women to death for joining Isis
- Xi Jinping to cement his power with plan to scrap two-term limit
- Colombia extradites 'Pablo Escobar of Ecuador' to US
- Absolute hell: the toxic outpost where Mumbai's poorest are 'sent to die'
- How have you been affected by the icy cold weather in the UK?
- Corbyn to put May on spot by embracing EU customs union
- Nativity on a knife-edge: the struggle for survival in Somalia – in pictures
- Disgraced anti-vaxxer Andrew Wakefield aims to advance his agenda in Texas election
- Shameful Home Office efforts to deport Commonwealth citizens | Letters
- Jacinda Ardern's 'sexist, creepy' 60 Minutes interview angers New Zealand
- Claims ship restoration was protecting threatened species an error, senators told
- Lathmar Holi festival: colour and beating with sticks – in pictures
- 'Dictator for life': Xi Jinping's power grab condemned as step towards tyranny
- Syria's return to bombing-as-usual is down to Russia | Simon Tisdall
- 'This country has been violated': Trump's wall ignites tensions in Arizona – video
- Jacinda Ardern's cringe-worthy 60 Minutes interview – video
- Aerial view of the damage caused by storms in parts of the US midwest - video
- 'Tony Blair is a complete liar' says Fire and Fury author Michael Wolff - video
| Syria: fresh fighting in eastern Ghouta despite UN-ordered ceasefire Posted: 25 Feb 2018 09:53 AM PST Offensives seen as Assad regime's bid to eliminate opposition and as challenge to security council's authority Syrian regime forces launched a fresh ground and air offensive on Sunday against rebel positions in the besieged and battered enclave of eastern Ghouta in defiance of a nationwide ceasefire ordered by the UN security council. Witnesses said fighting erupted on several fronts in what was seen as a possible last-ditch bid by Bashar al-Assad, Syria's president, to eliminate opposition resistance in Ghouta, near Damascus, before the 30-day ceasefire can be enforced. Continue reading... |
| Social media firms failing to protect young people, survey finds Posted: 25 Feb 2018 04:01 PM PST Cyberbullying inquiry finds the mental health of young people is severely affected by online abuse Social media companies such as Facebook, Snapchat and Twitter have been accused of failing to protect young people from harassment after a cyberbullying inquiry found that online abuse severely affects their mental health. Almost half of young people have experienced threatening, intimidating or abusive messages on social media, pushing some to the verge of suicide in the most extreme cases, according to a survey commissioned by the Children's Society and YoungMinds. Continue reading... |
| 'See the facts': top Democrat defends Russia memo as Trump fumes Posted: 25 Feb 2018 08:56 AM PST Democrats' memo, initially blocked by White House, responds to claim FBI wrongfully obtained a wiretap on Trump adviser The author of a newly released Democratic memo on investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 US election defended his work on Sunday, after being attacked by Donald Trump. On Saturday, Trump tweeted that the memo was "a total political and legal BUST". He also tweeted personal abuse of California congressman Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House intelligence committee, who he told Fox News was "a bad guy" responsible for leaks that were "probably illegal". Continue reading... |
| More than 100 schoolgirls missing after Boko Haram attack in Nigeria Posted: 25 Feb 2018 10:00 AM PST Officials say 110 students unaccounted for, despite prior claims of military rescue More than 100 girls remain unaccounted for following an attack on a school in north-eastern Nigeria by suspected members of Boko Haram, officials have said. The students' disappearance may represent one of the largest kidnappings since the jihadist group abducted more than 270 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok in 2014. That case drew global attention to the insurgency and spawned the high profile social media campaign Bring Back Our Girls. Continue reading... |
| North Korea willing to start direct talks with US, says South Korea Posted: 25 Feb 2018 05:46 PM PST Announcement comes as controversial North Korean general mobbed on visit to Winter Olympics North Korea has said it is willing to start direct talks with the US, with the move coming as a high-level delegation from Pyongyang, headed by a controversial general, arrived for the Winter Olympics closing ceremony. Pyongyang also said the relationship between the two Koreas and US-North Korean ties should advance in tandem, according to South Korea's presidential Blue House. The announcement on Sunday comes after president Moon Jae-in met the head of the North Korean delegation, Kim Yong-chol, vice-chair of the ruling Workers' party's central committee. Continue reading... |
| Jerusalem: thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews attend rabbi's funeral Posted: 25 Feb 2018 12:22 PM PST Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach, 86, was leader of breakaway faction of non-Hasidic ultra-Orthodox Jews Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews have attended the funeral of an influential rabbi in Jerusalem, bringing parts of the city to a standstill. Continue reading... |
| Ireland pushes for UK TV channels to make post-Brexit move Posted: 25 Feb 2018 10:04 AM PST Country tries to persuade TV channels to follow financial services in relocating to Dublin First it was banks; now Ireland is targeting television channels based in the UK who may need to relocate to an EU country after Brexit in order to continue broadcasting across the bloc. Its foreign investment authority has launched a charm offensive in London with the aim of persuading channels to follow Bank of America and Barclays to locate their EU-regulated HQ in Dublin. Continue reading... |
| Jerusalem's Holy Sepulchre church closes in tax protest Posted: 25 Feb 2018 05:40 AM PST Religious leaders say Israeli legislation is attempt to weaken Christian presence in area The heads of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, considered the holiest site in Christianity, have shuttered its doors to protest against a new tax and a piece of Israeli legislation that will allow the government to confiscate church land. In the rare step not seen for close to three decades, church leaders accused Israel of a "systematic and unprecedented attack against Christians in the Holy Land". Continue reading... |
| Storms leave five dead in Kentucky, Arkansas and Michigan Posted: 25 Feb 2018 12:39 PM PST Severe thunderstorms in system stretching from Texas to Canada trigger flooding and at least one tornado At least five were confirmed to have died after severe thunderstorms swept through the central US on Saturday, spawning a tornado that flattened homes, gale force winds and widespread flooding from the upper Midwest to Appalachia. Related: 'We've been forgotten': Hurricane Harvey and the long path to recovery Continue reading... |
| Fire and Fury author and Tony Blair accuse each other of lying Posted: 25 Feb 2018 04:53 AM PST Michael Wolff calls ex-PM 'complete liar' after he dismisses claims he was angling for job from Trump White House The former prime minister Tony Blair and the American author Michael Wolff have accused each other of lying, as the row about Blair's dealings with Donald Trump's White House reignited. Wolff, whose bestselling book Fire and Fury presents a remarkable and highly negative account of Trump's first year in office, said on Sunday that Blair was a "complete liar" in the way he dismissed claims in the book. Blair responded by saying Wolff's stories about him were made up. Continue reading... |
| Iraq court sentences 16 Turkish women to death for joining Isis Posted: 25 Feb 2018 08:09 AM PST Turks sentenced to hanging are among hundreds of foreign women being tried in Iraq
Iraq is conducting the trials of hundreds of foreign women who have been detained, with hundreds of their children, by Iraqi forces since August, as Isis strongholds crumbled. Continue reading... |
| Xi Jinping to cement his power with plan to scrap two-term limit Posted: 25 Feb 2018 03:23 AM PST China's Communist party chiefs propose constitutional change to allow president to stay on The Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, already considered the country's most dominant since Mao Zedong, looks to have further cemented his grip on power after Beijing unveiled plans to scrap the presidency's two-term limit. China's official news agency, Xinhua, announced the dramatic news on Sunday in a bland 36-word dispatch. It paves the way for Xi to remain in power well into the next decade and perhaps even beyond. Continue reading... |
| Colombia extradites 'Pablo Escobar of Ecuador' to US Posted: 25 Feb 2018 04:02 AM PST Washington Edison Prado is accused of shipping hundreds of tonnes of cocaine to US A suspected drug chief known as the "Pablo Escobar of Ecuador" was extradited to the US on Saturday, Colombia's chief prosecutor's office has announced. Washington Edison Prado tried unsuccessfully to prevent extradition by claiming membership of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) a status that would have made him eligible for a type of amnesty under a peace deal. Continue reading... |
| Absolute hell: the toxic outpost where Mumbai's poorest are 'sent to die' Posted: 25 Feb 2018 11:20 PM PST More than 30,000 slum residents have been forced to the 'critically polluted' area of Mahul as the city clears land around a water pipeline and plans a bike lane to stop residents moving back Away from the hustle and bustle of Mumbai, a sense of intense gloom pervades Mahul. The former fishing village to the east of India's great metropolis is now home to 30,000 people who were "rehabilitated" after their slum homes were demolished to make way for infrastructure projects. They live in 72 seven-storey buildings jammed together in the shadow of oil refineries, power stations and fertiliser plants. The air is pungent with the strong smell of chemicals. Sewage overflows into narrow streets. With the nearest government hospital seven miles away, masked patients stand in obedient lines outside homeopathy clinics, coughing. Continue reading... |
| How have you been affected by the icy cold weather in the UK? Posted: 26 Feb 2018 01:42 AM PST Travel disruption due to blizzards and snow drifts is expected as Britain is hit by freezing Siberian air this week The Met Office has issued yellow and amber weather warnings for snow across the UK as parts of the country will feel colder than areas in the Arctic circle. Travel disruption is expected as companies including Greater Anglia and C2C warned that services will be limited from Monday due to the cold weather. |
| Corbyn to put May on spot by embracing EU customs union Posted: 26 Feb 2018 01:43 AM PST Labour leader will pile pressure on PM before key vote, but avoid single market commitment Jeremy Corbyn will clarify his Brexit policy on Monday with a speech that increases the chances of Theresa May being defeated in the House of Commons while apparently ruling Labour out of committing itself to full membership of the single market after EU withdrawal. The Labour leader will confirm that his party wants the UK to remain in a customs union with the EU for good, a move that the shadow Brexit secretary, Sir Keir Starmer, described as heralding "crunch time" for the prime minister. May faces an uphill battle to avoid being defeated on this issue by an alliance of Labour, the other opposition parties and Conservative rebels in a key vote in the spring. Continue reading... |
| Nativity on a knife-edge: the struggle for survival in Somalia – in pictures Posted: 25 Feb 2018 11:00 PM PST For newborns in Somalia, many of whom are delivered in dusty, makeshift shelters without the assistance of a midwife or doctor, the risk of infection is high. With drought and conflict driving many women from their homes, one child in every 26 dies within 28 days of birth – many on the same day All photographs: Kate Holt/Unicef |
| Disgraced anti-vaxxer Andrew Wakefield aims to advance his agenda in Texas election Posted: 25 Feb 2018 11:00 PM PST Wakefield sees Houston primary as a new start after his anti-vaccine theories were debunked and medical license revoked Anti-vaccine campaigners have found a growing political voice for their debunked ideas in Texas, the adopted home of discredited British researcher Andrew Wakefield, and now hope to unseat a moderate Republican in the heart of Houston. Texas has seen rates of children opting out of vaccines for philosophical reasons skyrocket after Wakefield – the man behind the UK's MMR vaccine controversy in the early 2000s – moved to the state's capital, Austin, more than a decade ago. Continue reading... |
| Shameful Home Office efforts to deport Commonwealth citizens | Letters Posted: 25 Feb 2018 09:48 AM PST Readers respond to Amelia Gentleman's report on people who came to the UK as children and are now, after a lifetime of work, being classed as illegal immigrants It is shaming for citizens of a country which prides itself on its humanitarian values to read Amelia Gentleman's report on people who arrived here decades ago as children, worked conscientiously throughout their lives, and are now classed by the Home Office as illegal immigrants ('I've been here 50 years, worked night and day. No one wants to help me', G2, 22 February). Might the supreme court judgment in favour of John Worboys' victims offer some hope? If anything could be classed as inhuman or degrading treatment under article 3 of the European convention on human rights, surely it is these cases. No wonder our prime minister – and former home secretary – wants the country out of the convention. • Your article about the "brutal immigration climate" reminded me of what happened to my father. He was born in what was Calcutta in 1927 to a British couple, the youngest of four. He and his siblings were all brought to the UK as toddlers and left to be brought up in South Wales by their maternal grandparents. In 1970 he applied for a British passport, having never travelled abroad since his arrival, at which point all hell broke loose as the Home Office had no record of his entry into the UK. He had to provide no end of documentation to prove his right to a British passport. My father was furious for, as he pointed out, no one seemed too worried about his status when he had to do his national service. His eldest brother, by now a judge, was equally put out, having spent the whole of the war fighting in Europe (soldiers didn't require passports). However, both were eventually granted British passports. A cynic might say that it helped that they were white, university-educated professionals. |
| Jacinda Ardern's 'sexist, creepy' 60 Minutes interview angers New Zealand Posted: 25 Feb 2018 11:10 PM PST Australian journalist Charles Wooley criticised for calling PM 'attractive' and discussing the conception of her baby New Zealanders have criticised an interview with their prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, as "creepy" and "sexist". In the opening segment of the Australian current affairs show 60 Minutes , which aired on Sunday night, the veteran reporter Charles Wooley described the 37-year-old Ardern as "attractive". Continue reading... |
| Claims ship restoration was protecting threatened species an error, senators told Posted: 26 Feb 2018 01:06 AM PST Estimates committee hears 'administrative errors' meant wrong name was listed in document Federal government claims that funding a series of heritage works – including conserving a historic cargo ship and restoring stones at Old Melbourne Gaol – was protecting threatened species came about as result of an administrative error, a Senate estimates hearing has been told. As part of the Our Wide Brown Land series, Guardian Australia revealed that the federal environment department listed several heritage works among more than 1,000 projects across the country said to be helping threatened animals and plants. Continue reading... |
| Lathmar Holi festival: colour and beating with sticks – in pictures Posted: 26 Feb 2018 01:00 AM PST Holi is the Hindu spring festival of colours. In Barsana and Nandagaon, people celebrate a variation called 'Lathmar Holi', which means 'Holi in which people hit with sticks'. During the first day of the festival, the women of Barsana, the birth place of Hindu Goddess Radha, beat the men from Nandagaon, the hometown of Hindu God Krishna, with wooden sticks in response to their efforts to drench them with colours Continue reading... |
| 'Dictator for life': Xi Jinping's power grab condemned as step towards tyranny Posted: 25 Feb 2018 10:30 PM PST Experts and activists react to 'bombshell' decision to scrap two-term limit that was designed to guard against Mao-style personality cult in China The news broke at three minutes to four on a chilly winter's afternoon in a two-sentence bulletin. "The Communist party of China central committee proposed to remove the expression that the president and vice-president of the People's Republic of China 'shall serve no more than two consecutive terms' from the country's constitution," Xinhua, China's official news wire, reported. "The proposal was made public Sunday." |
| Syria's return to bombing-as-usual is down to Russia | Simon Tisdall Posted: 25 Feb 2018 08:07 AM PST It is as though the vote for a ceasefire never happened. The burden of responsibility lies with Putin Related: Syria: fresh fighting in eastern Ghouta despite UN-ordered ceasefire The first signs from eastern Ghouta are not encouraging. A day after the UN security council finally agreed a ceasefire, it was back to bombing-as-usual for Syria's regime. It is as though the vote for a truce in the besieged enclave, so long in coming and so contentious, never happened at all. Continue reading... |
| 'This country has been violated': Trump's wall ignites tensions in Arizona – video Posted: 25 Feb 2018 10:18 PM PST As Donald Trump seeks congressional support for his border wall, the Guardian's Paul Lewis meets Joe Arpaio, the controversial Arizona sheriff recently pardoned by Trump, and other local Republicans who are enraged over what they describe as an 'invasion' from Mexico. But he discovers a very different view among the Tohono O'odham Nation, a Native American tribe with members on both sides of the border Continue reading... |
| Jacinda Ardern's cringe-worthy 60 Minutes interview – video Posted: 25 Feb 2018 04:52 PM PST An Australian 60 Minutes interview with New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has hit the headlines for its patronising and cringe-worthy tone. Veteran reporter Charles Wooley asks Ardern and partner Clarke Gayford when their baby is due and then went to question if the baby was conceived during the election campaign. A visibly uncomfortable Ardern says at one point: "Not that we need to get into those details." Continue reading... |
| Aerial view of the damage caused by storms in parts of the US midwest - video Posted: 25 Feb 2018 11:33 AM PST Severe thunderstorms unleashed suspected tornadoes and triggered widespread flooding that left at least three people dead in Kentucky and Arkansas. The system that stretched from Texas to the Canadian maritime provinces on Sunday had prompted emergency declarations a day earlier in Missouri, Indiana and Illinois. Several dead in Kentucky and Arkansas as storms unleash suspected tornadoes Continue reading... |
| 'Tony Blair is a complete liar' says Fire and Fury author Michael Wolff - video Posted: 25 Feb 2018 09:09 AM PST In an interview on BBC One's The Andrew Marr Show, the American author Michael Wolff insisted he overheard a discussion between Blair and Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and an adviser in the White House. Wolff, whose bestselling book Fire and Fury presents a remarkable and highly negative account of Trump's first year in office, said Blair was a 'complete liar' in the way he dismissed claims in the book. Blair features only briefly in the book, but Wolff claims Blair was angling for a job as a Middle East peace envoy and that Blair told the Trump team that British intelligence may have been spying on them before Trump assumed the presidency. Fire and Fury author and Tony Blair accuse each other of lying Watch the entire interview here. Continue reading... |
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